Fintech at London Business School

Academic Focus

Julian’s main area of expertise is in the strategy and organisation of large corporations and he specialises in innovation. He brings the latest insights from the Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship as well as his own consulting work. He has written 13 books and speaks regularly at business conferences. Professor Julian Birkinshaw was ranked 46th in the 2017 Thinkers50 list of the top global management thinkers.

Recent Clients

Rio Tinto, ABN Amro, UBS, Tata Group, Exxon.

Experience

Julian is a Fellow of the Advanced Institute of Management Research (UK), and the Academy of International Business. He co-founded the Management Innovation Lab, a unique partnership between academia and business to accelerate the evolution of management.

Academic Focus

Focuses on the design, analysis and application of quantitative models for managerial decision-making.

Recent Clients

ENDESA, Iberdrola, McKinsey & Company.

Experience

Published in top journals including Management Science, Operations Research and Mathematics of Operations Research.

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Academic Focus

Chris Higson’s areas of expertise are in financial statements, financial performance and valuation, taxation, governance and regulation. He serves as an expert witness in these areas. He comments on financial matters on television, radio and in the international press.

Experience

Chris Higson has advised on financial performance in many of the world’s leading industrial and financial companies. He is a member of the oversight board of a UK investment company and has been involved in creating several new businesses, including a consultancy advising governments and financial institutions on the value of their information assets, and a media start-up. He has had several non-executive roles for the UK Government, as a member of the UK’s Industrial Development Advisory Board, the Regional Growth Fund panel, in the UK Green Investment Bank and the British Business Bank.

Academic Focus

Professor Jacobides is an expert on business model change and strategy in changing environments, and one of the worlds’ leading experts on business (and digital) ecosystems. He has studied industry change, value migration, and organisational transformation, and teaches the popular turnarounds elective. Professor Jacobides is an Academic Advisor to the Boston Consulting Group, has served on the Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum, and is a visiting scholar with the New York Fed and a visiting fellow at Cambridge.

Recent Clients

McKinsey, IDEO, Accenture, PwC, Deloitte, Santander, Helvetia, Zurich, CS, Airbus, Lufthansa, Vodafone, Nokia, DeBeers, Burberry, MerckSerono and the NHS.

Experience

Professor Jacobides focuses on change, design and strategy: he studies industry evolution, value migration, new business models and structural change in firms and sectors. A highly cited researcher, he is an Editor of Industrial & Corporate Change, and has earned the Theory to Practice Award (2018, WU). A frequent keynote speaker at high profile events from TEDx to Davos, he puts his theory into practice with top consulting firms, Fortune 500 companies, and sits on smaller ventures’ Advisory Boards. He has also worked with the EU, the UK and the WEF on policy.

Academic Focus

Professor Markides has been teaching strategy and innovation at London Business School for the last 28 years. He is an internationally acclaimed teacher and conference speaker who has done research and published seven books on the topics of strategic innovation, business model innovation, diversification and international acquisitions.

Recent Clients

Unilever, Pirelli, Avon, Polygram, Mercury Asset Management, Nestlé, LVMH and Sara Lee.

Experience

Professor Markides’ work explores how established companies can pursue disruptive innovation and compete with two business models in the same industry. He examines creating a culture of continuous innovation and the role individual managers play in making organisations more innovative. His forthcoming book Architects of Change explores how individuals can design innovative solutions to social problems in scalable ways. In Game-Changing Strategies (2008), Professor Markides charts how established firms can use business-model innovation to break the rules and respond to disruptive business models.

Academic Focus

Professor Narayan Naik is recognized as one of the leading experts on hedge fund investing. His teaching includes the following subjects: Strategic Investment Management, Equity Investment Management and Hedge Funds.

Recent Clients

Currently serves on the JPM ABR Index Committee. He has also consulted widely during his career for the World Bank, Sovereign Wealth Funds in the Middle East, and private corporations in the UK, USA and Asia.

Experience

Over the last decade he has authored a significant body of work in hedge funds benchmarking, performance evaluation of long-only managers, tail-risk hedging, life settlements-longevity risk and market microstructure. His work has appeared in the top finance journals, leading practitioner journals and financial press. Professor Naik recently co-authored a research paper with Professor William Fung, which has been used as the foundation for the JP Morgan Alternative Beta Reference (JPM ABR) Index.